Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1991 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1991 4:00 PM
Description
The mission of space operations has dramatically increased over the past decade. Increased responsibilities in the major areas of missile warning, space surveillance, satellite operations, and launch operations have diriven the need for precise training of people working in these areas. To accomplish this training, the use of computer simulation is taking on a much larger and increasingly more important role.
The goal of any type of computer simulation is to emulate operational equipment and procedures. Exact duplication of the operational environment, equipment, and software to include known glitches is known as 100 percent fidelity and is a difficult goal to achieve. While such an effort is technically realizable, current and more realistic expectations are usually to achieve I 80-95 percent of system fidelity. This is defined as high | fidelity simulation.
Paper Session III-A - The Role of Simulation in Space Operations Training
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The mission of space operations has dramatically increased over the past decade. Increased responsibilities in the major areas of missile warning, space surveillance, satellite operations, and launch operations have diriven the need for precise training of people working in these areas. To accomplish this training, the use of computer simulation is taking on a much larger and increasingly more important role.
The goal of any type of computer simulation is to emulate operational equipment and procedures. Exact duplication of the operational environment, equipment, and software to include known glitches is known as 100 percent fidelity and is a difficult goal to achieve. While such an effort is technically realizable, current and more realistic expectations are usually to achieve I 80-95 percent of system fidelity. This is defined as high | fidelity simulation.
Comments
Space Education
Session Chairman: Barbara Morgan, NASA’s “Teacher in Space” Designee, NASA, Education Affairs Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Session Organizer: Gerard Ventre, Acting Director, Space Education and Research Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL